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Today's running order

Today's running order

Subject to change

2 Jan 2014 06:58:09

Today's running order

Subject to change

0615

Business news with Simon Jack. Writer and broadcaster John
Rees looks at the City of London.

0710

The UN special representative to
South Sudan has warned that the number of people displaced by fighting across
the country is expected to go up significantly from current estimates of
180,000. The BBC’s Alastair Leithead reports.

0714

Business news with Simon Jack. Andy Street, managing
director of John Lewis, discusses sales figures for UK retailers over the
festive period.

0716

Could critics of the NHS come up with an alternative? Clive Stafford Smith, the founder of Reprieve, speaks to
members of staff and patients.

0724

Wambugu Wa Nyingi gives his
testimony of torture, after he was arrested by the colonial British authorities
in 1952 on suspicion of being part of the Mau Mau uprising.

0732

A report in the Telegraph on 2
January suggests that we could soon see jail terms of hundreds of years being
handed down by judges in the UK. Paul Mendelle QC, former chair of the Criminal
Bar Association, examines.

0735

The paper review.

0738

The journalist John Pilger looks
at the issue of censorship.

0748

Thought for the Day with Dr
Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

0751

An average 2.8% increase in rail fares
comes into effect on Thursday, pushing the cost of some commuter travel to more
than £5,000 a year. The rail minister Stephen Hammond speaks to
presenter Sarah Montague.

0756

The actor and director Ralph
Fiennes reads the poem Austerities by Charles Simic.

0810

Energy regulator Ofgem claims its
banning of confusing and complex tariffs will create a simpler and clearer
market. Ian Marlee, a senior partner to Ofgem, discusses.

0816

The
photographer Giles Duley looks at the realities for injured servicemen.

0832

Guardian
journalist Ian Cobain and Phil Shiner from Public Interest Lawyers discuss the
issue of torture; plus actor and director Ralph Fiennes reads The Fight for
Peace by Shaker Aamer.

0849

A look at the use of communist
rhetoric throughout history, and how the new year broadcast from North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un tapped into this. Bob Service, professor of Russian History
at Oxford, examines.

0853

An essay on knowledge and power,
with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.